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district forester may in turn delegate authority to supervisors to make sales 

 for specified amounts, which in no instance shall exceed 2,000,000 feet board 

 measure. All supervisors may, without special authorization, make sales of 

 timber and cordwood in amounts not exceeding $100 in value in any one sale. 

 The supervisor may authorize subordinate Forest officers to make sales of 

 timber and cordwood in amounts not exceeding $50 in value in any one sale. 

 ( Issued October 31, 1911, to take effect December 1, 1911. ) 



IDeposits. 



REGULATION S-4. The supervisor may, in his discretion, require that a de- 

 posit be made with the proper United States depository before any timber 

 applied for is examined. In every case where a supervisor decides to recommend 

 a sale of timber, for which advertisement is required by law, he will notify the 

 applicant to forward to the proper United States depository such part of the 

 purchase price as will be sufficient to cover the cost of advertising; such 

 deposit to be applied to the purchase price in case the sale is made to the 

 depositor; to be refunded in case the sale is made to some one other than the 

 depositor; to be retained in the discretion of the officer approving the sale, if 

 through fault of the depositor, no sale of timber is made. (Issued October 31, 

 1911, to take effect December 1. 1911.) 



Payments and refunds. 



REGULATION S-5. No timber shall be cut under any timber-sale contract until 

 it has been paid for. Refunds may, in the discretion of the Forester or district 

 forester, be made to depositors of such sums deposited by them to secure the 

 purchase price of forest products as may be found to be in excess of the amounts 

 actually due the United States. Refunds or payments may also be made to the 

 rightful claimants of such sums as may be found to have been erroneously 

 collected for timber or other forest products sold from lands within, but not a 

 part of, a National Forest. (Issued October 31, 1911. to take effect December 

 3, 1911.) 



Installment payments. 



REGULATION 3-6. In any sale the timber may be paid for in one or more 

 payments as agreed. In sales of $100 or less the partial payments must not 

 exceed three. (Issued October 31, 1911, to take effect December 1, 1911.) 



Modification of contracts. 



REGULATION S-7. Modifications of contracts for the sale of timber will not 

 be allowed except in those eases where the full performance of the contract by 

 the purchaser is rendered inequitable and unjust by some act of the United 

 States, or except where the modification is sought in respect to the unexecuted 

 portion of the contract and such modification would not be prejudicial to the 

 interests of the United States. Mcdiacations, where proper, within the mean- 

 ing of this regulation, may be made by the officer aproving the sale, or by his 

 superior officer. (Issued October 31, 1911, to take effect December 1, 1911.) 



Advance cutting 1 . 



REGULATION S-8. Except in sales to homestead settlers and farmers under 

 the terms of Regulation S-9, no timber will be sold, other than in amounts not 

 exceeding $100 stumpage value, in advance of advertisement, exeept in eases of 

 unusual emergency. All applications for emergency sales of timber will be sub- 

 mitted to the Secretary of Agriculture for approval, with a statement setting 

 forth the reasons for the emergency. When application is made for timber to 

 meet an unusual emergency the Forest officer authorized to make sale will, 

 when practicable and proper, include in the advertisement of such timber a 

 sufficient quantity of other timber in the came locality and of the same class to 

 satisfy such other bids as may be reasonably anticipated. After approval by 

 the Secretary, the Forest officer may, in sales not exceeding the amount which 

 such officer i& authorized to approve, permit the cutting and removal of timber 

 in advance of the award, when the applicant has made a deposit covering the 

 value of the timber to be cut and removed, and has agreed to pay far all timber 

 actually cut under the privilege of advance cutting at the rate of the highest 

 price bid for the whole amount of timber advertised, or, if no bids are received, 

 at the rate named in the advertisement. When necessary to protect the Gov- 

 ernment against loss a bond will be required. (Issued October 31, 1911, to take 

 effer-t December 1, 1911 ; as amended December 5, 1912, to take effect January 

 2, 1913.) 



